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Our agents work inside the tools operators already use, such as email and chat, to track shipments, answer operational questions, communicate with drivers, set appointments, and draft customer communications for freight carriers.\nThe role:\nAs Lead data scientist, you set the technical direction for data science at Overroute. Youʼll build the tools our agents call, choose the methods, and build, deploy, and scale the models and tools behind it in production for large fleet operators.\nYou will work with deep, real-world operating data from day one, alongside the operators who use the product, and own your work end to end, from first baseline through production monitoring. This is a senior individual contributor role. You\nlead through technical ownership and hands-on delivery rather than by managing a team, and you decide when a model is ready to ship. You work agent-first: AI coding and data agents are part of how you do data science every day, so one\nperson can cover the ground of a team.\nWhat you'll own:\nReliable datasets and labels. Define ground truth from operational sources that may disagree or be incomplete, and build datasets for evaluation and modeling.\nPredictive modeling and decision support. Work with Product, Engineering,and operators to turn freight problems into models and tools that support operational decisions.\nProduction models at scale. Take models from the first baseline to an initial production release and scale them in live workflows, partnering with Engineering on evals, deployment and infrastructure. Own automated monitoring, retraining, validation, and model updates, balancing accuracy, response time, reliability, and cost.\nHow we work:\nSimplest method first. Compare quality, response time, and cost against simpler alternatives. A model earns complexity by beating a published baseline.\nGround truth before models. Define the label before training or grading anything.\nLanguage models do not do the math. Calculations come from deterministic code.\nOne platform, many customers. Customer differences are configuration, not code branches.\nClear ownership. Engineering owns data pipelines, infrastructure, and security implementation. You own labels, methods, models, and evaluation. Product owns priorities, customer policy, and approval requirements.\nMake uncertainty clear. Work with Product and Engineering to make each prediction's confidence, limitations, and missing inputs clear to operators.\nMeasure customer impact with Product. Connect model accuracy to operational outcomes and customer return on investment ROI. Compare outcomes against a baseline and account for the cost of running and maintaining the models.\nWhat you bring:\n5+ years of hands-on experience in data science or applied machine learning, including independently taking models from problem definition to a first production release and scaling them in live use. You have automated model updates and connected model accuracy to customer ROI.\nAn agent-first way of working. You already hand analysis, experiments, pipelines, and evaluation code to AI agents, check what they produce, and can show a workflow where agents let you do the work of several people. The math in our product still comes from deterministic code; agents are how you build and verify it faster.\nStrong Python and SQL, sound software practices, and model and evaluation code others can maintain.\nComfortable diagnosing failures in multi-step LLM and agent workflows, end to end.\nWorking depth in statistics, experimental design, and predictive modeling, including uncertainty, leakage, biased samples, and data that changes over time.\nExperience building reliable datasets and labels when source systems disagreed or data was missing.\nJudgment to choose the simple method, investigate the surprising result, and stop an approach that is not helping users.\nThe ability to explain a model's limits to an engineer and to an operator, and to turn what an operator tells you into a testable problem.\nNice to have:\nExperience at an early-stage company; freight, logistics, or other physical operations; agent tracing tools such as LangSmith or Arize Phoenix.\nWhat we offer:\nOwnership of a core part of the product, with a direct line to the founders on product and company strategy.\nProduction ownership from day one: your models run live on real-world freight operating data.\nA fully remote, distributed team. 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